Tuesday, May 09, 2006

If you are alone and having a heart attack Do this!

My brother Gary forwarded an interesting computer video to me via email. I'd attach it if I knew how. But the gist of it was this. Imagine you are driving home from work and realize that you are having a Heart attack. You're alone and while you know how to give CPR, you don't know how to give it to yourself. Your best bet is to begin to begin a very serious bout of coughing. Coughing about every two seconds while taking a deep breath between each cough. Cough hard, as if you were trying to cough up gunk from the deepest part of your lungs. The deep breath helps draw in oxygen, the hard cough serves to squeeze your heart. Keep it up until you can find help. Not easy to do, but much better than panic...and it may save your own life. Share this with everyone you know.

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